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Open Source TV

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the geeks-on-the-tube dept.

Lish writes "Everyone's favorite tech prognosticator, Robert X Cringely, is going to do a TV show called 'NerdsTV.' It will be available on the web and playable on pretty much any system. The cool part is, they will provide three video versions: one geared at techies, one for suits, and one with all the raw footage so you can edit your own version to your heart's content. There will also be audio-only versions in Ogg and Mp3. All of this is freely redistributable."

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  1. Is GPL best license for this purpose by jukal · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Viewers will be free to share and redistribute the shows under the General Public License, which is something no other TV network in the world is doing. So there! "

    Or would some else do better, such as the GNU Free Documentation License FDL be better? Or something completely different and maybe new? I just have the feeling that GPL is tailored for software in a way that makes it incomplete or even invalid for licensing a TV show.

    Does someone have more insightful input than my "feelings" ;)